Exam 6: Human Population

You spend the night at a hotel and notice a sign in the bathroom asking you to place dirty towels on the floor and to hang up towels that you wish to reuse. By doing so, the hotel chain can help "save the planet" by conserving water and detergent. You recognize that the hotel chain would also save a lot of money by not having to launder so many towels, and you begin to wonder cynically whether the hotel isn't just practicing .

In general, environmentalists believe that governments should .

is best defined as the knowledge, beliefs, values, and learned ways of life shared by a group of people.

What factor might lead to more political support for higher fuel -efficiency standards?

Contingent valuation _ _.

Robert Costanza's research on ecosystem services found that _.

Modern market economies generally do NOT address .

You have two friends who are ethicists. One is a universalist, and the other is a relativist. You listen as they discuss many issues, during which all of the following statements are made. Which statement is most likely to have been spoken by the relativist?

Why would the consumption of fossils fuels remain high, despite high prices?

What measure(s) might consumers take to aid in the fossil fuel crisis?

is the sociological term for discontentment brought on by consumerism and materialism.

If a nonrenewable resource such as oil suddenly became scarce while demand remained constant, the price of the resource would .

Aldo Leopold's "Land Ethic" essay .

External costs include .

Which one of the following is an ecosystem service?

would oppose fuel efficiency standards because they believe that we will either find more oil or find an alternative solution to the fossil fuel crisis.

-Which of the items in the figure would be viewed as having ethical standing by a person who espouses a biocentric ethical perspective?